Search for dissertations about: "Louise Erdrich"

Found 3 swedish dissertations containing the words Louise Erdrich.

  2. 1. Epistolarity in a Post-Letter World : Five Contemporary American Case Studies

    Author : Sindija Franzetti; Sofia Ahlberg; Silvia Schultermandl; Maria Löschnigg; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; the motif of epistolarity; post-letter world; interpersonal communication; epistolary distance; epistolary space; contemporary American literature; Nick Bantock; Gordon Lish; Mark Dunn; Marilynne Robinson; Louise Erdrich; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; English; Engelska;

    Abstract : The rapid development of digital communication technologies over the past three decades has given rise to faster and more immediate forms of interpersonal communication, which, in turn, have brought an experience of reduced spatiotemporal distance between correspondents. Alongside these developments, epistolarity has made a powerful return in contemporary literature; a trend that has scholars of the form calling for new approaches. READ MORE

  4. 2. Fictons of (In)Betweenness

    Author : Claudia Egerer; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; in be tweenness; worrying the lines; hybridity; postcolonial awareness; unhomeliness of home; homefulness of exile; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; English language; Engelska språket;

    Abstract : The study investigates how both fictional and theoretical texts engage in 'worrying the lines' between conceptions of home and exile. It analyzes the ways in which home and exile are problematized in novels by Louise Erdrich, J M Coetzee, and David Malouf, to bring them in contact and collision with similar reconceptualizations in the writings of Homi K. READ MORE

  5. 3. Romance revived : postmodern romances and the tradition

    Author : Heidi Hansson; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; romance; postmodernism; dialogue; feminism; intertextuality; destabilised text; cyclical time; critical return; uncertain gender-construction;

    Abstract : This is the first study to identify and analyse postmodern romances as a new development of the romance and to relate this late twentieth-century subgenre to its tradition. Based on a selection of works published between 1969 and 1994, by A. S. READ MORE